Reading time: 4 minutes What a week this was in terms of catastrophes. Bocconi’s mid-term exams came swinging. Inter, a team that a lot of you may support, knocked my beloved FC Porto out [ … ]
Tag: Finance
W@C: The rollercoaster of temporary (dis)inflation – 06/03 – 10/03
Reading time: 5 minutes In this first edition of our new finance column Week at Close, we talk (among other things) about the broken promise of temporary inflation, Jerome Powell speaking and markets reacting, [ … ]
Invest Better, with BFDE.
Reading time: 5 minutes Behavioural finance – the study of markets’ unknown sentiments. Amid a geopolitical climate in which financial markets find themselves in a situation with abundant “known unknowns” – from the Russian [ … ]
98 Hours per Week
Reading time: 3 minutes Investment banking. Everyone knows about it, especially at Bocconi. Its difficulties are somewhat commonly understood, but they are put on paper by those working in the industry for the first [ … ]
Tra i Leoni & Jobs: Interview with Ekaterina Gavrilova
Reading time: 4 minutes Ekaterina Gavrilova is an assistant professor of finance at the Nova School of Business and Economics. She completed her Ph.D. in finance at Bocconi. Her research interests are corporate finance, [ … ]
DC/EP: the two-sided digital coin
Reading time: 6 minutes The implications that the implementation of the digital yuan in China will have on the global economy The idea of Central Bank digital currencies is turning into a possibility of [ … ]
Challenger Banks: A Success Story?
Reading time: 6 minutes Challenger banks, disruptor banks, neobanks — no matter which name you refer to them by, there’s no denying the debilitating impact these banks have had on the global financial market. [ … ]
The GameStop Incident: Interview with Massimo Guidolin
Reading time: 10 minutes Our writers Cansu and Emma conducted an interview with Bocconi Finance professor Massimo Guidolin about the recent GameStop fever. Here is a quick and simple recap of the events for [ … ]
A farewell to LIBOR
Reading time: 6 minutes by Barbara Balcon What is LIBOR? First published in 1986, the London Interbank Offer rate (LIBOR) is the interest rate at which funds are offered for sale in the Eurodollar [ … ]
Finance Friday 15.04.2016
Reading time: 3 minutes Di Nikola Kedhi The International Monetary Fund gathered this Tuesday to discuss the situation of the world economy and the risks that it faces. Amid Brexit fears, slow demand, continuously [ … ]